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Monstruosities under the inkcap mushrooms

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Comunicación presentada al VI Meeting on Genetics and Cellular Biology of Basidiomycetes (GCBB-VI), organizado por y celebrado en la Universidad Pública de Navarra el 3-6 de junio de 2005. Four different Inkcaps were isolated from horse dung and tested for growth on different medium. In addition to normal-shaped mushrooms, three of the isolates formed fruiting body-like structures resembling the anamorphs of Rhacophyllus lilaceus, a species originally believed to be asexual. Teleomorphs of this species were later found and are known as Coprinus clastophyllus, respectively Coprinopsis clastophylla. The fourth of our isolates also forms mushrooms but most of them are of crippled shape. Well-shaped umbrella-like mushrooms assigns this Inkcap to the clade Coprinellus. ITS sequencing confirmed that the first three strains and the Rhacophyllus type strain belong to the genus Coprinopsis and that the fourth isolate belongs to the genus Coprinellus. MNG thanks the CONACYT, Mexico for a PhD studentship. The authors are grateful for financial support by the DBU (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt).